This week's update is up!

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00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - Important lesson
01:57 - New videos
02:41 - ASR for Azure Local
02:54 - VMSS Flex enhanced ASR support
03:30 - Azure Service Bus Premium partioned namespace geo-replication
04:33 - VM multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for Prem SSDv2 and Ultra
05:21 - AFD TLS key exchange PQC
06:34 - App GW for containers private ingress
06:57 - App GW for containers MCP gateway
07:39 - App GW for containers JWT validation
08:01 - App GW WAF insights
08:46 - Azure Firewall IPv6 app rules
09:03 - Azure Route Server route maps
10:31 - New storage actions
11:09 - Advanced capacity insights
11:54 - On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment
12:16 - Azure SQL DB DB-level managed identity
12:54 - Azure SQL DB restore from portal
13:09 - Azure SQL DB and MI PITR backup immutability
13:47 - PostgreSQL flexible vnet integration to PE network config
14:11 - PostgreSQL REST API version
14:36 - Kimi K3.1 Pro Foundry
14:55 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video diving into how agents and their outputs can be contained and isolated on local operating systems based on developer and organization policy so they can be used with confidence.

youtu.be/oejDOONIfIs

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - OS elements
04:53 - Containment
12:34 - What is MXC
17:14 - Demo
23:46 - Learn modes
25:01 - Flagging agentic processes
26:26 - Summary
27:25 - Close

#MicrosoftExecutionContainers #AIAgents #AISecurity #Sandboxing #WindowsSecurity

This months Microsoft AI update is up and added a starter "Industry news and trends" section just going over the biggest themes of the month for additional context!

youtu.be/KaxQtUWDITU

00:00 - Introduction
00:11 - New videos
01:17 - Trustworthy scaling biggest challenge
02:38 - Highest employee productivity gains require organizational redesign
03:38 - AI operating economics focus
04:26 - Sovereignty and resilience focus
04:56 - MAI Code 1.1 Flash local
06:12 - MAI-Base-2 foundation model
06:51 - OpenAI Decisions API
07:53 - GPT-6.1 Terra
08:34 - MAI-Image-2.6 and 2.6-Flash
09:02 - Mistral Large 4
09:17 - Sonnet 5.5
09:35 - Maia 300 inferencing chip
10:03 - Microsoft Copilot harness
10:58 - Browser automation tool
11:31 - Multi-LoRA adapter
12:46 - BYOT SIP for voice agents
13:08 - Customer conversation harness
13:55 - Agent ID support
14:45 - Business process memory
15:06 - Triggers
15:42 - Copilot Projects
16:09 - Copilot Workspaces
16:47 - Role plugins
17:23 - Copilot for Legal and Finance
18:02 - Cowork previous conversation reference
18:30 - Teams recap without saving transcription
18:51 - Work IQ MCP retrieve
20:02 - Insights agent
20:33 - GitHub Copilot app
20:46 - Copilot Fusion
21:37 - Code review Max
21:48 - Copilot Projects
22:00 - Session continuity
22:18 - Copilot Automations
22:44 - Infrastructure updates
23:31 - API-M A365 integration
25:17 - Project Perception updates
27:18 - Close

#AI #Microsoft #MicrosoftAI #MicrosoftCopilot #AIAgents #GenerativeAI #EnterpriseAI

This week's Halloween Azure Update is up!

📹 youtu.be/K0Ycx-7xKEo

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00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - New videos
01:16 - ACA logging destination update
01:56 - Confidential VM LOSDE
02:45 - VNet Flow Log filtering
04:01 - AFD profile and route WAF policies
04:51 - HTTP DDoS AFD WAF ruleset
05:22 - Higher storage account resource quotas
05:42 - Azure Backup cross-tenant restore
06:29 - Foundry Claude model cost management
06:55 - Azure MCP Server 3.0
07:52 - GPT-6.1 Terra
08:40 - MAI-Image-2.6 and 2.6-Flash
09:07 - Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry
09:47 - GitHub Universe
11:13 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

After my post last week regarding the security incidents, I had a number of customer conversations about some of the newer Microsoft security solutions like MDASH, Perception, Defender ISOC and how they fit together. So, made a video as well :-D

youtu.be/dSODQy9bWjU

00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - MDASH
04:45 - Perception
08:34 - Defender ISOC
11:05 - Foundation
14:03 - Secure your AI
16:41 - DART
17:44 - Summary
18:44 - Close

Ultimately, it boils down to the fact we have to accelerate our defense with AI because the bad actors are using AI to accelerate their attack.

#MicrosoftSecurity #CyberSecurity #AISecurity #AIForSecurity #MicrosoftDefender #SecurityOperations #ThreatIntelligence #IncidentResponse #SecureAI #CyberDefense

New video looking at "Why do AI Agents fail". Is it all the models fault? Most of the time no so we dig into the common challenges and what we can do.

youtu.be/xKgY5vnzjMQ

00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - The model and what surrounds it
06:16 - Fuzzy goal
10:58 - Bad context
15:57 - Tool misfires
19:02 - Bad reasoning
22:53 - Lost state
25:47 - Hijack and over privileged
30:50 - Flying blind
35:07 - Improvement loop
39:46 - Two caveats
41:14 - Summary
42:19 - Close

#AIAgents #AgenticAI #AIEngineering #LLMOps #AIObservability #AISafety

This week's Azure Update is up!

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00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - New videos
00:50 - Traffic Manager Azure DNS integration
01:47 - App GW keyless TLS with AKV managed HSM
02:13 - AFD WAF service tag matching
02:53 - Disable vnet peering route
04:03 - Azure Backup VM item-level recovery
04:40 - Azure Databricks private network gateway
05:40 - Azure Monitor workspace usage insights
05:57 - Azure Monitor advanced platform metrics
06:25 - Cosmos DB safe key rotation
06:47 - ADLS ABFS vectored read
07:54 - Sovereign updates
10:00 - Project Perception updates
12:36 - Entra CYOT
13:05 - OpenAI Decisions API
14:10 - Copilot Studio agent ID
14:35 - Close

#azure #microsoft

Had a lot of conversations recently about agentic control planes and seen a lot of confusion so wanted to quickly provide an overview of what an agent control plane is (and what it isn't)! Hint - it's not a user interface and it's something we're actually used to elsewhere.

youtu.be/9fYTmTMo4Dw

#AgenticAI #AIAgents #AgentOrchestration #AIInfrastructure #ControlPlane #AIArchitecture

This week's pretty quick update is up!

youtu.be/va1TiwLhBq8

00:00 - Intro
00:17 - New videos
01:07 - ASR Arc support for VMware and physical servers
01:45 - VMSS rebalancing
02:43 - Standard Service Endpoints
04:28 - Cross-region Azure Files replication
05:12 - Azure Cloud HSM hardware audit logging
05:45 - MAI-Base-2 foundation model
06:31 - Maia 300 inferencing chip
07:01 - Close

#azure #microsoft

New Tech in Five focusing on answering "What is Computer Use?"

youtu.be/pwsUd72-58U

#NewTechInFive #ComputerUse #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation

After using the new Copilot "Super App" for a couple of weeks and reading a lot of the blogs around it I wanted to share what I've found both about the app itself and what it means for organizations wanting to bring the right level of AI based on the task and outcome to their employees.

youtu.be/YSFSR8d58Bk

00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Pace of AI change and possibilities
02:34 - Home
03:40 - Enterprise knowledge
05:59 - Chat
10:24 - Plugins
12:48 - Notebooks
14:00 - User Seat License billing
16:15 - Cowork
18:04 - User Based Billing consumption
19:31 - FinOps
22:08 - Chat or Cowork
23:22 - Intent routing
24:45 - Code
28:19 - Autopilot
29:56 - Summary
32:10 - Close

#MicrosoftCopilot #Microsoft365Copilot #EnterpriseAI #FutureOfWork #AIAgents #FinOps

This week's Azure update is up!

📽️ youtu.be/65a5WX2SGEU

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00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - New videos
00:49 - AKS bare metal on Ubuntu
01:43 - AKS Anyscale
02:23 - AKS NAT GW standardv2 default
03:00 - App Service Java 8,11 and 17 retirement
03:12 - ADE retirement
04:18 - Microsoft Dev Box retirement
04:52 - App GW WAF IPv6
05:20 - WAF exceptions
06:44 - API-M A365 integration
08:54 - PostgreSQL flexible in East US 3
09:06 - PostgreSQL Elastic major version upgrades
09:52 - Enabling the Bulk admin role for SQL Server on Linux
10:25 - PostgreSQL flexible & elastic Azure Backup support v2
11:39 - OneLake catalog table discovery
12:20 - SQL Server on Azure VM in Azure Bleu
12:41 - Azure HorizonDB additional regions
13:17 - Azure SQL DB always encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves retirement
13:41 - MAI Code 1.1 Flash local
15:56 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

This month's AI update is up (September 2026). Lots of great updates across the Microsoft ecosystem with a little bit of a deeper dive on the new Copilot app.

youtu.be/Ypzjqzoh6KY

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - New videos
01:18 - Fable 5.1
02:26 - GPT-6 Astra
03:16 - Gemini 3.8 Flash
03:36 - SpaceXAI Grok
04:09 - OpenAI GPT-6 & 6.1 Sol and Luna
05:25 - Opus and Sonnet 5.5
05:48 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry
06:13 - MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry
06:39 - Jev
08:20 - Model Router updates
09:21 - Foundry Dev Pack
09:40 - Voice agents
11:03 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams
11:43 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls
12:23 - Foundry routines
12:55 - Foundry A2A v1.0
13:17 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls
13:31 - Natural language app building
14:01 - Copilot Managed Runtime
14:54 - Copilot App update
17:04 - Cowork edit in place
17:26 - Fabric IQ in Copilot
18:42 - PowerPoint Brand Kit and Skills
19:04 - Unified plugin registry
19:33 - Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive
19:45 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion
20:27 - Enterprise managed permissions for agent operations
20:48 - VS Code agent merge
21:03 - Teams and Slack integration update
21:27 - Cost and quality tiers in auto model selection
22:00 - Budget increase request flow
22:28 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP
22:54 - SQL agent skills
23:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors
23:57 - ACA Sandboxes
24:41 - Close

#MicrosoftAI #MicrosoftCopilot #AzureAI #AIAgents #GenerativeAI

This week's update is up!

📽️ youtu.be/yluw5tkRdbE

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00:00 - Introduction
00:14 - New videos
01:27 - Azure IoT Central retirement
01:57 - Microsoft HPC Pack retirement
02:32 - VMSS automatic zone placement
03:18 - Lasv5 and Laosv5
04:23 - D[s]v3, E[s]v3, DC[d]sv3, NVv3/4 retirement
04:49 - ACA Function v1 hosting retirement
05:07 - AKS Ubuntu 26.04
05:26 - Elastic SAN Azure Backup support
06:02 - Azure NetApp Files SMB Entra Kerberos support
06:27 - ANF cool access
07:06 - ANF large volume breakthrough mode
07:37 - HorizonDB PostgreSQL 18
07:57 - PostgreSQL LTRv2
08:58 - PostgreSQL x-tenant CMK
09:37 - PostgreSQL Ultra Disk
09:55 - MySQL reader endpoint
10:23 - Azure SQL general updates
13:51 - Azure SQL Dev Hub
14:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors
15:16 - Azure SQL DB Hyperscale Serverless auto pause/resume
15:52 - SQL agent skills
16:23 - Azure Arc to Azure migration
17:27 - SQL Formatter
17:49 - SQL Server on Azure Local
18:37 - SQL on Azure Linux VM deployment update
18:59 - Azure Extended Zones Luxembourg
19:28 - GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 available
20:41 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video covering the new ACA sandboxes which provide an isolated, secure and egress controlled platform to host your agents on when you need to self-orchestrate. This is the same platform Microsoft use for most of their agent hosting!

youtu.be/43ZJtGpCYbU

00:00 - Introduction
00:08 - MicroVM for container agents
03:11 - Egress proxy
05:02 - Lifecycle
08:34 - Pricing
09:27 - ACA Sandbox Group
15:00 - Managing sandbox instances
16:31 - Egress rules
20:23 - Logging
22:02 - When to use
23:46 - Summary
24:14 - Close

#Azure #AzureContainerApps #AIAgents #AgenticAI #CloudSecurity

This week's update is up (25th September 2026).

📽️ youtu.be/uaUoqTKHKM8

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00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - New videos
00:34 - Mdsv4 and Msv4 VMs
00:53 - Functions PowerShell 7.6 support
01:03 - AKS Flex Nodes
01:54 - Function Node.js 22 retirement
02:06 - ACA Express
02:55 - ACA Sandboxes
04:21 - VM RP instant access
04:36 - PostgreSQL 18 support for PostgreSQL elastic clusters
04:57 - New PostgreSQL troubleshooting guides
05:21 - PostgreSQL logical replication slot sync status
05:36 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams
06:20 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls
07:03 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls
07:16 - Foundry routines
07:51 - Azure App GitHub Copilot guided experience
08:24 - Opus 5.5 in Foundry, GHCP, Cowork
08:39 - OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and Luna in Foundry and GHCP
09:21 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry
09:42 - Copilot App update
10:35 - ACS retirement
10:53 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video based on a lot of my customer meetings and Microsoft's own journey transforming with AI on how to succeed with AI.

youtu.be/uZXLN2Nx94w

00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - AI adoption
01:32 - Where can AI drive benefit
08:49 - What makes a good AI initiative
17:47 - Human and AI
18:44 - Where do we get stuck
22:21 - Rethinking our organization
23:11 - Intelligence and trust
23:39 - Intelligence
28:19 - Trust
35:52 - Models
38:44 - Amplifying the human
39:07 - Bad actors using AI
40:00 - Summary
41:01 - Close

#AITransformation #AIAdoption #AIStrategy #ResponsibleAI #MicrosoftAI

This week's Azure update is up (18th September 2026).

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00:20 - AKS Azure Linux with OS Guard retirement
01:09 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift hosted control planes
02:12 - Azure App Gateway HTTP/3 over QUIC
02:35 - AVNM high-scale mesh
03:16 - Agentless SMB storage migration
03:52 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP
04:28 - Azure SQL DB logical server soft delete
04:57 - AVD new endpoints for the Windows App
05:22 - Azure Payments HSM v2

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

This week's Azure update is up!

00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - New videos
00:34 - VM ephemeral OS disk full caching
01:43 - Azure Functions Flex Consumption custom TLS
02:09 - User-bound user delegation SAS
02:52 - AZD extension framework
03:35 - ALD playwright workspace new regions
04:00 - Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent
04:24 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion
05:21 - Close

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#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

This month's (August 2026) Microsoft AI Update is up!

youtu.be/-lv1ktRRDfo

00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - New videos
01:06 - MAI-Code-1.1-Flash
01:36 - MAI-Image-2.6
01:52 - MAI-Thinking-1
02:22 - MAI-Transcribe-2
02:46 - Gemini 3.7 Flash
02:59 - Kimi K3
03:07 - DeepSeek-v4-Flash-0731 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
03:55 - Grok 4.6
04:14 - Fable 5.1
05:21 - GPT-6 Astra
05:53 - Model router updates
06:36 - Content understanding update
07:11 - Hosted on Azure Claude updates
08:20 - GitHub Copilot harness use
09:26 - SharePoint authoritative sites
10:07 - Cowork customizable effort
10:19 - Better /cost
10:28 - Automations
10:35 - Chat response selection as context
10:51 - Copilot Notebook updates
11:08 - App updates
12:21 - Scout in preview
12:40 - Code review effort levels and expanded scope
13:24 - Cloud agent reasoning effort
13:35 - Enterprise MCP control
13:53 - Global model enablement policy
14:14 - Trigger Copilot automations for comments
14:40 - App and CLI session updates
14:58 - Reporting updates
16:09 - Azure Copilot agent access
16:38 - Close

#microsoft #AI #artificalintelligence #copilot #m365 #microsoftfoundry #foundry #copilotstudio #github